The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one’s impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.

The values of human solidarity that once drove our quest for a humane society seem to have been replaced, or are being threatened, by a crass materialism and pursuit of social goals of instant gratification.